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AND HERE’S MODI is an inside look at the man behind the microphone. Hosted by comedian, Modi (@modi_live), AHM features a raw and unfiltered side of the comedian rarely seen on stage. He always finds the funny as he navigates the worlds of comedy, trending topics, his personal life and spirituality. AHM is co-hosted by Periel Aschenbrand (@perielaschenbrand) and Leo Veiga (@leo_veiga_).
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Modi & Leo
Episode 159: In this experimental episode (which aired live in real-time on Modi's YouTube channel) Leo and Modi sit down for an intimate chat covering everything from Labubus to Billy Joel, and what it's like to have a text conversation with Modi. Remember: Hydrate, Moisturize, and Be Nice!
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welcome to, and here's modi. Hi everybody, and welcome to, and here's modi. Um, whatever you're doing, we're so happy you're with us and we are live. From what I understand, we are on youtube live, right we're experimenting, we're seeing, it's our first one Experimental, yeah, experimental podcasting for us. Yeah, so hi, we're live. I hope we look good. We look amazing. Yeah, you really do look amazing.
Speaker 1:Oh thank you. I have to tell you, I mean you with all everything. Wow, I'm looking at the light and your skin and your hair, oh, and your teeth and your, everything in your arms and your oh. And I told the engineer she looked beautiful too. It was, I was strange to. She's just beautiful.
Speaker 2:we have four people on, by the way four people, hi, four people the engineer.
Speaker 1:He was so beautiful and I said to her brianna, you're just so pretty and your makeup is so good. And for one moment I'm like is it okay to say that?
Speaker 2:well, because you think you're going to get canceled.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like he said something about my makeup, but then you said you can say that because you're gay. I think I can also say that because I'm over a certain age.
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:I disagree with you Over a certain age you can say sweetheart, darling Sweetheart.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's so. I don't think they women don't like that, and I just think in general of commenting on women's appearance, good or bad, is just like you don't need to, you know, like find something else to say oh, why would you not give her a compliment?
Speaker 1:why would you not?
Speaker 2:because I just feel like if that's your, especially if you're meeting them for like the first time, like you just met them and learned their name and like, oh, you're so pretty, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I try not to that's because your generation, but our generation, my generation was like hey, you look amazing, you look great, good for you and maybe we need to go back to that.
Speaker 2:I think we have to go back you already know my theory that why dating is so right hard for the straight people is because the men have been scared. Now you're a better word just they were neutered by the me too movement.
Speaker 1:Right because the me too movement. And then all those seminars in their, in their offices, about how to treat women and how to talk to people and how to not touch and how to not anything. It's like it destroyed them and they don't know how to communicate now yeah, yeah anyway, um what?
Speaker 2:do you want to talk about? I'm a little like curious how this is gonna go. I can't wait. Does it still tell you how many people? There's? 13 now. 13 people.
Speaker 1:Oh my god, thank you, oh my god and look from all over the place, from england and from oh hi shalom, shabbat shalom. First of all, we're taping on a friday, so if you're live, have an amazing shabbat later on. Let's just start with the list I made. First of of all, we had shows in the Hamptons.
Speaker 2:Pause. Do me a favor, try to squeeze this out of your face a little bit. This thing here, just like yeah, pa-pa-pa.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there Is that better. There's your punim, my punim, wow.
Speaker 2:Every time Leo hits me with a Jewish word, I, literally I ship such nachos, and I know what that means such not felling quelling. Okay, you were talking about the hamptons.
Speaker 1:Sorry, no, but you know that. Okay, let's stick with the ham. So, first of all, we had a show at the hamptons and now it's already become like the minhug, the the. You know, minhug is custom, okay you know that word? No, yeah, yeah, you do, minhag, it's, uh, it's. It's a custom that we go to randy and an arthur's house pre-show, pre-show, where he has they're the sponsor of the podcast.
Speaker 2:Well, I didn't get there yet, but they have the barbecue.
Speaker 1:I don't. I can't explain to you how good the meat is. I don't. I'm not a meat eater, we don't eat meat. It's not our thing. I've been eating meat, girl. You've good the meat is. I'm not a meat eater, we don't eat meat.
Speaker 2:It's not our thing. I've been eating meat, girl. You've been eating meat, yeah.
Speaker 1:But the steak that Arthur made for us to go, and by Arthur, his staff of chefs that were there, was so delicious. And so thank you to Randy and Arthur for hosting us before the shows and coming to the shows, and Randy, who can always call and ask for free tickets, always buys tickets. I love her and they're also the sponsor of our podcast, weitz and Luxembourg. The law from the not only does well, they do good, they're super philanthropic and they help us and they're our partner with us and we love them. We love Arthur and we love Randy for listening and telling arthur what was on the podcast. And speaking of grilling, speaking of grilling a and h oh, my god, we're getting all the sponsors out of the way, right away.
Speaker 1:Oh my god a and h provisions wow, the best coat which was actually at the barbecue. The best kosher meets uh, glott kosher. And with promo code modi you can can get 30% off your first order at kosherdogsnet and Seth, who's a friend of the podcast, will invite you to come see the factory whenever you want. The merch is super cute. Thank you, seth, for being a part of this, and now we can just steamroll ahead.
Speaker 2:Now we can just full steam ahead, talk about whatever we want.
Speaker 1:Hampton shows were absolutely amazing. We had two shows A matinee and a late show.
Speaker 2:Same day.
Speaker 1:A matinee a 4 o'clock and an 8 o'clock and it was. I felt like I was in the Catskills again, why? You looked out and you saw an entire family. You saw the grandparents, the parents and kids and it's like all together and they were so cute and that's that was the Catskills. The family was together and the family came to this and it was like this is a good spot we had there's no air conditioning, but there's a good spot.
Speaker 2:There's this canoe in a canoe place.
Speaker 1:In canoe place in Hampton Bays, which is not in West Hampton, it's not all the way deep in the Hamptons, so it was like people were able to get there from all the Hamptons. And the Hamptons was where we began the material for the Pause for Laughter comedy show which I'm touring now, which was a year ago. Yeah, but it's kind of changed.
Speaker 2:It's changed since that year.
Speaker 1:There was a skeleton, there was a set list of the show and it began in the Hamptons and it's been a year and we're taping it in December in Atlanta. There might be a few tickets left. If you're listening to this, go to modilivecom and come to the taping.
Speaker 2:Fly down to the taping. Make it a thing. You want to be at the taping? We're making it a thing. You want to be at the taping we're making it a thing, we're making it a thing, it's a production Period.
Speaker 1:It's going to be fun and it's a great thing to say I love everything Like do you know what I love?
Speaker 2:I just want to pause. Rita says hello from Montreal. Saw your show here, it was amazing. Hello Rita.
Speaker 1:Hi Rita, Can Do you know what I love what? Okay, there's a few things I love, Like when people can say I was at your taping. You know when they say, when people tell me I brought my son the first time he ever saw comedy, was you the first live?
Speaker 2:So the kid's story for the rest of his life.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the rest of his life he's going to be like. The first comic I ever saw was Modi, or. My other favorite thing is Birthdays, no Birthdays. Yes, we took my grandmother and the whole family for the 80th birthday, but also when people tell me that they sat and watched my special with their grandfather right before he passed away.
Speaker 2:What my dentist story, your dentist story, tell us. Yeah, yeah. I went to the dentist and he said, oh, I watched Modi's special with my older Jewish uncle who has dementia and he sat and watched the whole thing and he was laughing and I never I hadn't seen him so engaged in a long time and he was like focused and watching and he was getting everything.
Speaker 1:No, that's why I do comedy. It's literally why we do comedy. And that was it. And the Hampton shows were amazing. It was like really the Columbus show Packed House in Columbus, ohio. Thank you everybody that came out. I want to start thanking the audiences for coming out?
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, we love them, but, like, not on the podcast. Let's keep it conversational, Okay.
Speaker 1:I had a photo shoot with Mark Seliger, who is a super famous photographer. He has three books out.
Speaker 1:He has shot everyone and their mother, from Leonardo DiCaprio to Leonardo da Vinci, literally, he is so famous. He was more famous than me, obviously, and we were doing the photo shoot and I hate doing these photo shoots and it's a big operation he has. He has all these assistants and usually when we do these photo shoots, leo directs me. Usually it's one person that we hire and then they do this. Then we change outfits and leo directs me and puts me on boxes and makes me do things, so that it's more natural. This was like I felt like okay, here we are and I'm like catching the vibe of mark, you know, doing that.
Speaker 1:He was so sweet and so nice and he has on every door and I love him and like, I'm like I'm doing this and I'm like just trying to do the face and hey, all those dumb faces you make when you're being photographed. And then at one point I just realized I said to him Mark, am I the least famous person you ever shot Without even a beat. He goes yes and continues shooting. I mean, I mean this guy, he had fallon coming in after- you guys have a connection?
Speaker 1:yeah, he had fallon coming in after me. He was shooting, um, I mean everybody, he's just every movie shot, every, every shot he's on, but we put on to fill in at the end yeah, that's, he has a connection with you.
Speaker 2:Like he, it wasn't like. Yeah, it was a good match. He went to see the rebbe.
Speaker 1:He was like there's a there's a spiritual energy with him too, like he was and he's, he's, he's um and you know what I might be using some of those pictures for what? Radio city music hall radio city music hall, april 23rd those tickets.
Speaker 2:It's not formally announced or available yet. That's coming out in october.
Speaker 1:But yeah, our agent was like you can't discuss this until october. I have been telling everybody literally end the shows by everybody.
Speaker 2:Take out your phone like write down april 23rd your phone and put april 23rd radio city music hall.
Speaker 1:Please, all of you in london and wherever you are, get tickets and make that a new york weekend for you um, good morning from san diego.
Speaker 2:What an awesome way to start my day, making challah with my faves, hi stacy hold on sandra from from the netherlands.
Speaker 1:If you guys only knew that my the show begins me talking in dutch. Oh yeah, by the way, the the, the pause for laughter comedy tour, and the special begins with me talking Dutch. Okay, other stuff we want to talk about. Can I tell you I did a. We're only 10 minutes in. We have time, we have so much time. We have to relax. We can chat about whatever you want. It's a good vibe in here. It's a new studio, right?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I like this. We've never recorded in here before.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you right. Yeah, I like this recorded in here before. Yeah, so I had um a zoom interview with somebody regarding a documentary about a catskill comedian named bernie burns who's 97 years old kanai naharaai Nahara and he is still alive and he's not working, but he was a Catskill comedian in the 50s and 60s. Wow, I didn't get to the Catskills until the 90s.
Speaker 2:I didn't get here until the 90s in general Right To the planet.
Speaker 1:Anyway, so we, you said something cute. You're going to see if someone says something.
Speaker 2:I'm just saying you two are amazing, modi. My husband saw your show in Columbus. We were laughing nonstop. Good job, biz Mitchell. Hi, sorry, so you did this interview about Bernie Burns, an old Catskill comedian.
Speaker 1:Right. So I've been thinking and I've been functioning under the premise and it's in the act that I am the last of the Catskill comedians that's still alive. Okay, because he worked the Catskills. I worked the Catskills. I bought my first apartment with money I made from the Catskills. I worked the Catskills. He is still alive. He's not a working comedian now, but he's still alive. So I can't say that I'm the last living catskill comedian.
Speaker 2:Can you say working comedian?
Speaker 1:yeah, last working comedian from the. Yeah, but it sounds I think I'm gonna still stay with last. Yeah, he's not gonna follow up.
Speaker 2:He's not gonna follow I think people get it like the vibe that I think also, like you know, stand-up is dramatized. It's's not your autobiography word for word, so it's a performance.
Speaker 1:I can't get over your hair right now. Thank, you, I'm just hitting it so unbelievably well. Thank you, baruch Hashem for you. Okay, we had a Moshiach Energy moment in our apartment building. What Everybody always said it's better to give than receive. Oh my god, the the people. When you give, you feel a better energy when you receive. It's a hundred percent true, and leo got to experience this. Yeah, first hand in our building.
Speaker 2:Do tell us, oh my god, it's so silly, it's so great, it's so silly. Well, there's these things. I don't know if you've, I don't know if people are familiar with the labubus. They're these stupid little dolls that you attach to your backpack or your purse and they've, like exploded in popularity and the kids love them. Women are putting them, like on their birkin bags.
Speaker 2:Um, they're just trending and they're these stupid little. They're kind of ugly, kind of cute, like so ugly that they're cute little plushy dolls. They're a little bit about this big and the company Popmart, but these things have made their inventor a billionaire. He's like one of the richest men in China now and they do these drops online and you have to be online and you have to be on the app and you have to be online and you have to be on the app and you have to get it and it's like so hard to get, it's like impossible. Um, so now there's like a whole black market of them if you can get them from other people and like they're just hard to find and, um, I have been blessed with several labubus.
Speaker 1:I have acquired. You have a connection?
Speaker 2:yeah, um, and I like to give them to people because I think it's a funny sort of gag gift and I had brought some to Connecticut to give to our friends. I put them in the guest rooms because I thought it would be funny if it was on their bed when they got there. And they love them, by the way.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:So then we were just in Connecticut. We came back and when I was there I realized I had an unopened labubu there back. And when I was there I realized I had an unopened labubu there.
Speaker 1:and so when we were, in our apartment building I was hold on. Just explain in our apartment building, the downstairs there's, there's the the um, the recycle unit and there's also, it's right in front of the window, where the package unit, where the package room is. We have a package room. There's an amazing woman that works there. We love her. She always takes care of victoria, she takes care of us when we're away, she takes our packages, and so it's a lot, which is a lot.
Speaker 2:So leo's standing in front of the recycle bin where you put the cardboard and she's watching him and she's watching me unbox this labubu, because they're in a blind box so you don't know which one you're gonna get. So they're all boxed and then it's in a bag. So I'm standing there in front of the recycling and I'm going through all these layers and I finally take the labubu out and she goes oh, I can hear her because she's like watching me unpack it and she goes Mr Leo, you got a labubu. You're so lucky. I've been trying every night. I can't get one. Oh, it's so cute. And I was like, please just take it. I was like, here it's yours. Like, please take it. I was like, here it's yours, please take it. If I would have known that you wanted one or knew what it was, I wouldn't have taken it out of the box. But here the box is right here. Here's the sticker that comes with it. She almost cried.
Speaker 2:I was like I want to go get her more Labubus now. I was like have all the Labubus.
Speaker 1:It's so cute. It's so cute, it's such a great little. It really shows you like giving us. How much greater to give you.
Speaker 2:How good did you feel I had more fun. I enjoyed the interaction more than she did. I mean, she was so appreciative to like get this stupid little toy, but yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's comedy when you get on stage and you bust out that energy and give it to all of them. I'm having more. I promise you anybody watching me on this live thing now or in this podcast or whatever- which is 21 people.
Speaker 2:Now progress our first live it's youtube.
Speaker 1:I'm telling you right now that that when I'm in a theater doing a show, there's nobody having more fun in that theater than me. However hard the audience is laughing and plotting and dying, I am having a better time than all of them all of them. That was a little booboo story I.
Speaker 2:I know you're having the most fun. I'm kind of like monitoring the comments as best as I can. Um stacy said from vienna.
Speaker 1:Hold on from vienna hello from vienna.
Speaker 2:We're gonna be there I hope you have your tickets. Please get your tickets. That's in november, november. Yes, forget the date. It's on modi livecom 21, I think 21 no 18, something like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, vienna please get your tickets.
Speaker 2:Let's get that I do have a ticket period.
Speaker 1:I love you h202 okay, we'll see you in vienna hi. Say hi when you're there.
Speaker 2:Let us know, the Labubus are funny because I was a kid when the Beanie Babies were like a hot thing and I wasn't really a. I had some but like my parents were like enough and I feel like now that I'm an adult and I have money, I just like buying the Labubus because it's like the Beanie Babies of today.
Speaker 1:Well, I, being older than you, I saw a bunch of these. There was one Stuffed Cabbage Patch Kids.
Speaker 2:The Cabbage Patch.
Speaker 1:Kids. Yeah, I didn't get Cabbage, stuffed Cabbage. I said Stuffed Cabbage Because you love Stuffed Cabbage.
Speaker 2:I love Stuffed Cabbage. It's one of your faves. Halipschitz, halipschitz.
Speaker 1:Halipschitz Patch Kids, that was Mshagas.
Speaker 2:That was a craziness, that was. Yeah, I know it's just like a stupid trend.
Speaker 1:Yeah and good, At least we know to enjoy it, not to be obsessed with it and collect it and think it should be worth money one day, just give them out.
Speaker 2:You put a hostage pin on your Labubu that I gave you, and you made him a Lajuju.
Speaker 1:I made him a Lajuju. I put the hostage pit and the tag and the whole thing on my yeah, yeah, what else is on your list? What else is on my list? Okay, we watched the Billy Joel documentary. When we say we, well I. Okay, it was 18 parts.
Speaker 2:It's funny because you're the one who's always like I have ADD, I can't focus. Blah, blah, blah. But when we're in our house and we're trying to watch a movie or something, I'm doing laps around the house and you're watching and I can't sit. Still, I'm listening, I'm listening to it and I'm keeping along, but I'm just futzing. I'm in the kitchen, I'm folding clothes, like I can't sit and watch something for that long so I I can only if I'm watching something I'm I'm totally focused on it.
Speaker 1:I don't want to miss a line no, I'm not missing a line.
Speaker 2:I just don't have to sit and watch, I don't know. But yeah, the billy joel documentary I was watching, I was listening to it, you were watching it.
Speaker 1:Yes, I want to tell you something. You know I always talk about how god put gifts on earth and the people are a vessel. So billy joel was a vessel for a gift that god put on earth his songs, his music, his voice, it's. It's a gift that came. And then you get to meet the on the documentary, you get to meet the vessel, you get to meet him and how he talks and he has a Long Island accent. You know, and you said I do too, but I don't think I do. But of course not. He has a very strong Long Island accent.
Speaker 1:He came from from Hicksville, such a funny name it's such a funny name, what a horrible name for any place they should really rebrand that. Oh god, it's horrible. Everything out there, hicksville's horrible and then amityville. From the amityville horror show for a rebrand and yeah, it's also good for a rebrand, but, but um, it's an amazing story. No, it's just such a.
Speaker 2:It's wow, yeah, and then the whole thing with the manager.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, but scary but then it's scary that he had all this money problems. But I felt all the money problems led him to the next thing all those shows he did in if he had had all this money problems. But I feel like all the money problems led him to the next thing All those shows he did. If he had had all the money, if he never made a financial mistake from the beginning, he wouldn't have had to do all those shows at Radio City Music Hall.
Speaker 2:What am I saying, msg?
Speaker 1:At MSG at Madison Square Garden. But he did what 100 shows Like he broke a record.
Speaker 2:He broke some crazy record.
Speaker 1:And we went. Dina bought us tickets to that. We did. We saw it live. It was. It's mind-blowing. It's mind-blowing that there's one man that they're all coming to see and they all know his music and they all and I'm looking out like across from us is a section which is probably 500 people which is a theater. Across from us is a section which is probably 500 people which is a theater.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, that's what we were doing. We were looking across MSG and we were like that's about the venue we're doing next week, Just that chunk and then it's multiplied by, like by billions, a whole bunch.
Speaker 1:Oh, it was so, and just like it, really you can tell that God put his gift out and said okay, this needs to be more shows, you have more you, you have these shows in you and we're going to get them out of you.
Speaker 2:So this is it was his uh fuel to keep going and solidify. You're saying he maybe wouldn't have been such a prolific legendary singer if he had made his money, did some hits and was like okay showing you enough, showing exactly, but he but god was like no, you're gonna have some money problems and you're gonna to have to keep grinding. And then, look, he broke all that records at Madison Square.
Speaker 1:Garden. Yeah, and makes people feel good, and makes people feel bad.
Speaker 2:You always have a positive spin on the situation. Yes, you're always looking for that. Well, you know, if you didn't do that, I that's. Yeah, I struggle with that. No, but you got oh, it's so much easier to have a positive spin. It's just easier. I'm not saying it's not, I'm just saying our brains work differently.
Speaker 1:Okay, wow, we are just, we're cooking here. Yeah, a lot of topics. I like this.
Speaker 2:Greetings from Scotland. Scotland, hope you are coming to the UK soon. We were in the UK in May, we did Manchester, we did London in February, and then we also had done London the previous November. So sign up for the mailing list so you know the next time we're there. Fausto, what else?
Speaker 1:is on the list.
Speaker 2:I can't read from here Stacey wants me to read her comment. What's the comment About something? Say Stacey wants me to read her comment. What's the comment About something? Say Stacey Mami. Can you say Stacey Mami as Nir? Just for Stacey Mami.
Speaker 1:Stacey Mami, my little one. People loved Nir, I know.
Speaker 2:It was, should we? It just became like a branding issue because people thought that you were, that was me, that was a real person, I know like a branding issue, because people thought that, like that you were, that was a real person, I know. And then I was like no, no, his name is modi, he does stand up. They like thought you were like a real, that was like a real person. Um, that was a covety thing yeah, that's for like the deep fans. The deep fans know about near.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, okay, I want to talk about this is. I mean, I don't know if I have your approval to discuss this, but let's go recently, go Recently. The prime minister of Israel was on Fox News talking about what he's doing and what he's going to do, and all of that. He was interviewed on Fox News and behind him was a set of books. You know, you kind of like have to choose what's behind you in those. You know it's an interview to be dressed up your makeup, it's a real thing. And then there's like the books behind you wherever you are, or a picture behind you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and behind him was a set of the Zohar, which is the, which is the mystical teachings of the Torah. So the Torah is cut up into parashat, into sections. You know Genesis, noach, chai, sarah, all of these, and then this is the commentary on that, but in the spiritual commentary on that, but in the spiritual commentary, and within that is literally the the solution for world peace, for human dignity, for love thy neighbor. All of that is like amplified it's that's, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the instruction manual for world peace. I don't know what he's planning on doing and what he's doing and what's going to happen, but I just know that that's there behind. I don't know if he chose it or his.
Speaker 2:Are you saying it's an ironic juxtaposition or it's a foretelling of what's to come?
Speaker 1:Going for positive God willing.
Speaker 2:I think it's an ironic juxtaposition. I think it's an ironic juxtaposition.
Speaker 1:I hope it's a foretelling that whatever is in those books, those holy books, will be used to create world peace and human dignity and love and obviously a messianic era. I'm putting that out there.
Speaker 2:It's a set of Zohar.
Speaker 1:It's not like the Bible or the laws of Jewish courts, or it's the laws of the Jewish government, it's the Zohar. It's such a strong statement to put that behind you when you're talking about anything, when you're doing an interview, to have that behind you about anything, when you're doing an interview, to have that behind you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but there's so many people around him who may have just staged that and he just waltzed in.
Speaker 1:I don't think.
Speaker 2:BB is art directing the background of his Fox News interview.
Speaker 1:So maybe he is, maybe he isn't. I want to find out. We're actually meeting with somebody who's very close to him soon. So, we're going to ask, but I would love to hear everybody's opinion on what you think about bb having the zohar behind him when he made the fox interview. That's it. That's just that was. I'm putting that out there okay we're good, yeah, next, next, yeah, okay, moving that right along.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:So you told me that people, when it comes to me and you are very voyeuristic, yeah, I want to Mm-hmm, yeah, I think. Well, I think a lot of people don't know that we've been together so long, yes, like we've been together so long, yes, like we've been together 10 years now, and that when I met you I didn't know who you were or that you were a comedian. I don't think people know that. I think that we just met and I was like, oh, look at this funny guy, he's a comedian. And like then I was just, I don't know. I think there's a misconception, all right, and like.
Speaker 2:People sometimes place me in a certain category. That is not accurate. Not that I care, but like I feel it. I can see it like when people realize who I am and then I can see them sort of like placing me. But there is a voyeuristic aspect of like us and you and like we're kind of like an out-of-the-box couple with like the age difference and the religion difference, and like we work together but he's this and they're that and he puts on fill-in but he's gay and he has a husband. It's like people don't know how to digest it and some people it turns them off. But I feel like some people are like just intrigued and that's like what I'm saying like this sort of like voyeuristic aspect which we're monetizing, because look at what we're doing, we're doing a podcast together, a hundred percent.
Speaker 1:When we first met, our go-to mantra of how to have a relationship was hydrate, moisturize and be nice. But those are symbolic, not literal.
Speaker 2:No those are literal, it's literal but also Hydrate, moisturize and be nice. But those are symbolic, not literal. No, those are literal. It's literal, but also.
Speaker 1:Hydrate, moisturize and be nice yeah.
Speaker 2:Literally Hydrate means like Hydrate, literally Drink water but also like make sure your partner is hydrated and taken care of Right, and like fed and is comfortable Right Moisturize. Moisturize is just kind of like self-care. Self-care yes, like you have to also take care of yourself. Fix your own mask before fixing other people's mask. Yes, and be nice to each other. That covers everything else. Yes, and be nice to each other.
Speaker 1:That covers everything else, right? So those are the three, absolutely.
Speaker 2:It's just 100%.
Speaker 1:Those were the three commandments and we've added then monetize.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Monetize Period, monetize which I've done. You've killed it. So you say people always ask like did you know who I was when you met me? So I always say I wasn't who I was when you met me. So I always say I wasn't who I am when you met me. You made me who I am. When I met Leo, I had 7,000 followers. I was doing private gigs. It was like you blew it into the next level. You know you over COVID, the gift that we had, covid was a gift for us, a time to regroup and re.
Speaker 2:Let's be delicate.
Speaker 1:Yeah, a lot of people died, okay but, but, but we, for us, it was a moment of positivity, it was a pivotal moment. It's a pivotal moment and then, you know, everything just moved along with that too. So so on, the voyeuristic um vibe of people wanting to find out about us, okay, I want, I want to ask so. So to me it's, it's very much like it all. It's summed up when, when, when we're walking in the street and someone comes to me and goes you're modi, you're, you're modi. And then attorney goes and you're his gay husband, as if, like, I'm not gay, but like I happen to have been married to a gay man, so now that makes me gay by association, which is like very funny. It's like it really explains it all.
Speaker 2:They compartmentalize you in like a very strange way, right?
Speaker 1:Like here's this guy who puts on tefillin and goes to synagogue and he davens kom nidre and he speaks in Yiddish and everything is Mashiach energy. And he's married to a man who's not Jewish and who's running the Jewish comedy world. You know, so it's great, Okay. So on the voyeuristic thing I want, here's a question that I want you to answer. These are not you don't know these questions. I'm going in blind, You're going in blind, yeah, yeah yeah, Okay, Where's that question?
Speaker 2:I really like it. Well, while you find that Eve says about BB, don't underestimate. Always looking for light and better ways. We should all think and listen more with our hearts and not our eyes. Love you both.
Speaker 1:Thank you, Eve. Thank you, Eve. That's exactly what I'm talking about. That's the energy we want. What was the first thing you noticed about me that wasn't physical?
Speaker 2:Well, we met on the subway.
Speaker 1:Right physical.
Speaker 2:The well we met on the subway right. Um, it's hard, because the first thing I noticed was you smiled at me, but you smiled at me as if we had met before, like we knew each other already, and then you did this kind of like motion with your head. That was like kind of silly, um, but that wasn't physical um, so I'll tell you what mine was for you.
Speaker 1:Okay, you were clever. I go, oh, this, this, this kid's clever. This kid's clever what? Because we, well, you moved in three days after we, three dates after we met, and you were working at cia, and you would come home and tell me all the stories of what happened there and I, I put together that he's clever, he's smart, clever, he's the word clever, clever, you're so clever well then, obviously yours is funny, but like, that's a lazy answer.
Speaker 2:First thing I noticed about you it's not physical. I guess when I went to your apartment for the first time, it was clean and I was really into that. Oh, okay, I was like, oh, thank God.
Speaker 1:My apartment was so cute when you, when you?
Speaker 2:well, because you also like weren't you were busy working, and like it was just you, and like like, so I guess there wasn't much, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Maybe my apartment when we first met was a one bedroom. I owned the apartment next to it but didn't break I didn't know that right so it was, and um I had help designing it from miles yeah, it was nice.
Speaker 2:It was nice and clean. It was like a put together, here's like a got.
Speaker 1:Like you know, it was welcoming and nice and like I liked being there so that that that apartment was the wallpaper and the doors and like kind of the stuff was all designed by miles red, who you, you, you met, we've hung out with him. We went to his house and in fire island and all that, and he's a close friend of mine from from literally like 25 years already, and so that apartment was super cute. And then, um, there was a one-person apartment.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was like a well, it's a one bedroom, which, in manhattan, is definitely for a couple but like for two people you need we've expanded yeah that was our first year together was doing a gut renovation combination of two apartments so we had just met and then we like, hopped into this construction project.
Speaker 1:So to answer this question. The number one thing you noticed about me that wasn't physical was that I was clean.
Speaker 2:Honestly, the first thing, this is physical, though I noticed that you were wearing like running shoes, like Hoka's not Hoka's, but like Nike's, I don't know why, but that's physical, that's physical, physical.
Speaker 1:So clever is not physical, see so clever is not physical.
Speaker 2:Um see, yeah, I'm having a hard time because I'm just thinking about the moment. I first like locked eyes on you and that's all physical so then okay, so then move on past that um, oh well then that you were like direct because, like once, we like exchanged numbers and stuff. You were like hi, do you want to go to this tonight? Yes, I will pick you up at eight. I was like period done.
Speaker 1:Okay, love, that's because of our age difference and texting you and your friends text like when you guys to say one word, to say one thing. It's like a flower stream of consciousness, and balloons and emojis and all kinds of stuff me. It's like meet me here. Yes, I will be there. Okay, there was no, I don't like talk it out on the texting yeah, you're not a big people.
Speaker 2:If someone like looked at my phone and like went to our text message thread like you and me, they'd be like this is not a married couple. Like it's like. Like it's like, yes. No food in the house. Question mark yes, bought almond milk like it's just yeah, the bare. No Food in the house question mark yes, bought almond milk.
Speaker 1:Like it's just the bare minimum, but we're also with each other. Yeah, that's all texting should be. It shouldn't be trying to figure out someone's emotional situation.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I completely agree. Oh, okay, all right, okay, good.
Speaker 1:When do you feel most alive?
Speaker 2:I've been thinking about this a lot recently most alive. I've been thinking about this a lot recently. Um, when I'm going really fast on what? In my car and also on a jet ski, and I was doing research and there's this track in connecticut, like an hour from our house, where I can like take the car out on it. Yeah, I told you you should do that, I know I.
Speaker 1:I think I'm gonna do that you know that that does nothing for me speed you don't have well, because you're get your adrenaline from stage. I get on stage in front of I don't have that yeah like here, make us laugh yeah, that's crazy yeah so you know that they have like those things where, like with these accountants and these people who are very like that, they go go bungee jumping and skydiving, because that's where they get their crazy adrenaline high. But yeah, speeding has never been my thing.
Speaker 2:But I don't speed, like on the road, like on the highway and stuff. But, like on a back road or something I'll you know, open her up. But that's like such a specific moment and when do I feel the most alive.
Speaker 1:You know, when you look super alive what we just did a video of asmr. Yeah, we just posted I don't know what that means it's a whole thing you have to google it, it stands for something people like.
Speaker 2:It's like these soft little noises, that it's like super viral, super viral and you told me then.
Speaker 1:So we taped like a bunch of stuff, and then on the drive home from Connecticut you just put your earphones on and went into editing mode.
Speaker 2:That's when I look the most alive, when I'm on my phone. That's so depressing.
Speaker 1:You look so alive when you're editing. You're like and you're getting into it, and you're getting into it Two hours on. I would, if I was doing anything on my phone for two hours, I would put it down, find someone and choke them. That's my. My head would explode. But you are like creating content and chopping and cutting and getting and bunning and chika-paka-paka. It's so wow to watch. It's something I could never do. I could never do any of it. I can never do jokes.
Speaker 2:No, it's not true. Well, I've done a few jokes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you've written a lot the.
Speaker 2:ASMR filling video was genius and hilarious, says Vocus. I can't read it from here Wait, how many people are on? Right now 39, which, for our first live that I didn't advertise, is not bad. Very nice which for our first live that I didn't advertise is not bad very um. Paul tackett says leo and modi are beshared amen absolutely.
Speaker 1:Um, okay, what in our relationship are you the most proud of? Wow I will tell you mine go ahead. Is that bad? I should just let you tell you no, tell me that we help other people. That's the most important thing. That's the most important thing.
Speaker 2:I really think that is yes, that is like the core tenet of what you do, of like you don't think you're just going on stage and doing jokes. You, you genuinely believe that you are bringing healing to people, and so you do. You don't go like. That does come across and people do get that from your shows right um, so that's pretty cool to see yeah, because other comedians don't necessarily bring that um intention to the stage.
Speaker 2:They're like all right, let's do some jokes like I'm gonna see if these people laugh like yeah, they're like sort of like an angrier energy, right, you know what I mean. Yeah, I'm not gonna name names, no but we um, um.
Speaker 1:But I think that's the most important thing is you have to, and I think when people go on dates, instead of asking the person things like um, what do you want to do especially religious people? Um, when they ask things like, um, are you going to cover your hair? Are you going to, are you going to do Especially religious people when they ask things like are you going to cover your hair? Are you going to? Da-da-da, are you going to do this in the morning? Do that? When do you kosher? Not kosher, would you eat out? I mean, the first questions you should be asking on any date is how can we together help other people, you know, and then take it from there, then worry about like, like, if they're gonna wash their hands but by their bed and do all that stuff, and you know all the religious things that you can connect to God with. If it works for you, you know, but helping others is the most important thing and then everything else will come into place. So, what's is? What's your thing of?
Speaker 2:you're most proud of our relationship oh yeah, I'm proud that we work together and we, like you know, are doing a positive thing in the world in general. I think making people's day like even a tiny bit better Good, but also just like how we've been able to. Like I said, we've been together 10 years and it's been like a kind of a crazy ride, Not in a bad way.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But like we're in some intense situations that a lot of other couples don't have to navigate, yes, and also like public perception and like people knowing who I am but I don't know who they are, and like people saying negative things to us sometimes about our relationship and we kind of are very good at just like letting it roll off our back. In general, there are I mean, there are isolated instances where I've lost my mind, but in general, like I think, when you said we haven't, we're so good at letting it roll off.
Speaker 2:I'm like we no, but in general like I don't think a lot of people could handle like the energy of their partner going on stage in front of hundreds or thousands of people, and then that energy exchange is like very intense.
Speaker 2:And then like this, like sort of like adoration of your partner on a large scale, and then like, but at the end of the night you're the one who goes home with them. And then, but I'm also seeing like people talking about you online and like as if you're it's hard to like navigate. When you're like up, you're my partner and you're my husband, but you're also like a for lack of a better word like a product that is that you created, sold.
Speaker 1:So when you see me going on that stage. I think what you should be thinking is I created this.
Speaker 2:I didn't create it.
Speaker 1:You booked three shows at the Beacon. Okay, you created that, you made that happen, you publicized it. You linked to how to go live the agents, managers, publicists, graphic design teams all that, you did that. You did all of that.
Speaker 2:Okay, you're very sweet for acknowledging that. But yeah, I think. But I just think most couples like I would struggle with working so closely together and especially if one of them is sort of like the face of the operation kind of and like, yeah, having to.
Speaker 2:But then I saw this thing, that video I sent you of taylor swift and how her brother and her mom worked for her and how they like got her her music catalog back and like. I think you know so they, they also are doing that yeah, it's a family thing, it's.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you have to have family in the industry or else you know, my favorite thing is when people ask me like how do you guys try I go. I said I could do this every night.
Speaker 1:I could that alone, the amount we travel together would break 75 of couples no but, like you have to think, I could every night do a show with no problem. I could every night fly somewhere theater, green room, hotel, green room, theater with no problem. And the reason I can is because of you. You are walking. What do you call it? Advance, advance the show. You have to advance the show, advance the show which means nothing.
Speaker 2:It means nothing, it means nothing, but everyone loves to say it.
Speaker 1:I'm advancing the show.
Speaker 2:I've advanced the show with the tech person, with the stage manager, with the backstage manager. There's a loading dock manager, there's the front of house manager, there's the box office manager, and we're advancing and we're letting them know that they need, and then we get there.
Speaker 1:And then we get there and no one has anything. No one has music cues, no one has anything, and leo has to handle all of it yeah, and me I'm sitting in the the green room. Oh look, they got my favorite flavor of Celsius and look, there's a nice.
Speaker 2:How do you think that happened?
Speaker 1:Yeah, because it's all, because you take care of all of it and I just walk on stage and have a great time and come off and you have all that pressure. And then the rides and the hotels and the flights yeah, the travel's hard for me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so the travel is hard for you, so that's why we need to take it down. It's hard for me just like physically, like my skin gets so dry on the airplanes. It's like it's tough on the body. It's so tough on the body and your sleep cycle.
Speaker 1:Here's something I wanted to ask myself, so I'm asking you this instead Okay, what do you do every morning to?
Speaker 2:help you have a better day. What do I do every morning to help you have a better day? What do I do every morning to help me have? A better day, yeah, um, can we get back to my? What's your answer? Well, obviously you're you, you fill in and you. Well, I wake up in the morning and I have my, your meditation.
Speaker 1:I have my water with lemon juice. I squeeze a lemon into a water.
Speaker 2:I don't know why, which I don't hold by, but I love that you do that. I hold by it, yeah.
Speaker 1:Because I've seen it a few times on TikTok.
Speaker 2:So it must be true.
Speaker 1:So it must be true. Djokovic, the tennis player, says every day that's how he starts his day. And then, now that we've said this and our phone heard it, I'm going to get all the ads on. Here's what happens to your body when you have a.
Speaker 2:I worry about my enamel. That's my thought. No, but you suck at eating, I know.
Speaker 1:Stop sitting there eating a lemon.
Speaker 2:I know.
Speaker 1:And so I do that. I wash my hands with the neglovasa to remind myself that I'm pure, and then I put on tefillin and that's how you start a day.
Speaker 2:Yeah, see, I just roll out every morning and I'm like, I'm like what's going to happen today? God?
Speaker 1:forbid.
Speaker 2:You shouldn't be like that I go to the kitchen, I take my vitamins, I make a coffee and I just open that laptop and I'm like cracking my knuckles like what are we dealing with today? But I, I'm not good at that. I'm not good at having like a routine or like a spiritual practice. Like you, I just kind of every day. Well, going to the gym is my sort of like putting on fill in. What are you reading?
Speaker 1:you not need to roll. I hope it is.
Speaker 2:Adrian said what you should be most proud of is how you both have grown together as people totally in sync.
Speaker 1:Thank you, adrian. Okay, I'm ready to do a new segment of the show. Okay, it's called Plug your Friends.
Speaker 2:Highlighting all the wonderful things that our creative people that we know are doing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, obviously, I think this will air while Jeff Ross is still on Broadway. Jeff Ross is on Broadway. That is a monumental event in the comedy world. I would definitely make sure you see that.
Speaker 2:It's called Take a Banana for the Ride.
Speaker 1:Take a Banana for the Ride. We're going on the 18th, I think. So yeah, the official opening night. I can't wait. The reviews are amazing. So Jeff Ross is definitely who you need to see. Who you need to see, mendy Tversky, who's been on the podcast and is, I think, the next Elvis of the Jewish world. He's performing in the Jerusalem Great Synagogue on August 21st. If I could, if I was in Israel, I would make it a thing to go see him. Ricky Rose, who's been on the podcast and I love and I think is such a gift of God that is in the vessel. Ricky Rose has been on the podcast and I love and I think is such a gift of God that is in the vessel called Ricky Rose. She's going to be at the Triad Theater on August 24th, if you're here. Comedy fans Mark Marin has his new special out called Panicked. It is so good to watch. That's it, that was it, and we are plugging ourselves. We have dates in a lot of dates in November. A lot of private shows till then.
Speaker 2:We have some new dates rolling out soon, but right now what's available is Vancouver on November 12, november 12th. San francisco on november 13th. We might be adding a show at san francisco. Uh, vienna is november 16th.
Speaker 2:Sorry, vienna person but you said you already got your ticket. So, um, we're in amsterdam on november 18th, berlin, which I think is sold out or about to sell out. We're there for the jewish cultural festival on november 20th. Then Then we go to Paris November 23rd, and then Seattle December 6th, and then Atlanta December 10th and 11th for your special taping.
Speaker 1:Yes, please be at the special taping. Thank you very much. Everybody that's coming to the shows and selling these shows out, I really, really appreciate it. Every ticket that's sold is a nest. It's a miracle that they clicked and they bought and they got their PayPal, whatever the hell they have to do to get a ticket. And that's it. I mean we have more time. We've been on for over 40 minutes. Yeah, our session ends at 1230. I know, but do we need to schlep it all the way out?
Speaker 2:like that we can.
Speaker 1:So tell me what you have. What else do you have?
Speaker 2:I had that one thing that I wanted to talk to you about, so tell me.
Speaker 1:What is it?
Speaker 2:The Rob Report article about the celebrities who are building doomsday bunkers.
Speaker 1:Yes, okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So let me pull it up. Everyone port did this thing um talking about how these um, basically all these ultra rich people are um building these crazy elaborate underground bunkers. And they're not just like a bunker, they look like a luxury home hotel, like an amman resort underground or wherever it is, and they're fully self-contained, off the grid. Water sources, it's like designed for like I don't know, a nuclear explosion is coming, or like the world has totally ended, and um, they were just describing them. Some of them have crematoriums in them. So it's like I'm and they look beautiful, like I saw some of the pictures in the article and they said kim kardashian is apparently a client, mark zuckerberg is building a crazy one. And I'm just like, first of all, what would be in our bunker if we built a bunker?
Speaker 2:because they were talking about all these amenities that different people have requested but, then I'm also thinking like, let's say the world, let's say the ultrarich elite group of people who have these bunkers. They get the news first that the world is about to end, the comet is coming, the nukes are coming, whatever is coming, and they have time to get to their bunker. They then also have to bring the staff Right Because, like, let's say, kim Kardashian is like okay, I have to head to my bunker now. She hasn't done anything for herself in decades. She's going to have to go into the bunker and learn how to like cook Kraft mac and cheese. Or like she brings an assistant to keep her social media alive while they're underground and then they succumb to whatever COVID viruses then. And then she has to like Could you imagine Kim Kardashian operating a crematorium like an in-house crematorium? That's hilarious.
Speaker 1:To be honest with you, I would build it out. You know me. Steam room, sauna, jacuzzi.
Speaker 2:That's what they have. They have all these things. Yeah, that's all I would do. One of them has a go-kart track.
Speaker 1:They have all that money, so that's what they're keeping busy with. But the real answer is, if there is a nuclear war or whatever, I want them when they put in where it should land my address. I want to be the ground zero of where. I'm not looking for a world where everybody's hair and eyeballs are falling out or being Chernobyl-y.
Speaker 2:Well, Adrian says too late for bunkers. We're living in doomsday as we speak.
Speaker 1:No, Adrian, we're not. We're living in Mashiach energy. We are literally about. We are in Mashiach energy and about the entire world being.
Speaker 2:I just think it's funny that they're putting all this effort Because like, okay, let's also say the nukes are coming, the comments are coming, whatever's coming. And like you're Mark Zuckerberg's private chef and now he calls you to get on the plane to go to the bunker and you have to like now call your family and be like hi, so like I know the world is ending and everything. But like Mark is on this new diet and I have to make his smoothies every morning, so I diet and I have to make his smoothies every morning, so I'm gonna be in a bunker.
Speaker 2:I'll check in with you guys later. Yeah, like it's bizarro nutso cuckoo, banana crazy it is cuckoo banana crazy.
Speaker 1:I mean I just I don't, I can't even. I'm not there yet, I'm not yet. We just redid the bathrooms.
Speaker 2:I'm super happy with where they came out I just thought you would have jokes about like but like kim kardashian in a bunker. Yeah, have jokes about like Kim.
Speaker 1:Kardashian in a bunker. Yeah, kim Kardashian in a bunker. I don't know. I mean, is she going to fit all of her body parts in there?
Speaker 2:Her big ass. I mean, I don't know, low hanging fruit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't, it's not like my, it's not my audience's humor either. I don't think, well, I don't know, so I, whatever I mean again a tour of brazil anytime.
Speaker 2:We did brazil, we did a private show in uh sao paulo for like 700 people. Um, I don't know if we would. Is there enough people there outside? If there's a good?
Speaker 1:if there's a good if, if, if there's a producer for a show and they have a good venue and we can do it, we're down A check and a microphone, we show up. The check has to be right and the microphone has to be done well.
Speaker 2:And we show up. So we did our sponsors, we did your shout outs, we did everything.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and we had some fun and it was a nice little session here catching up with you, even though we are together all the time. Yeah, it's nice to just to check in with you and check in with our audience, and this live thing is fun, let's experiment.
Speaker 2:We're going to let people know ahead of time next time and get some guests and merch merch, you know.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, not that I need the money, but just the fact that you're walking around with something that says Moshiach Energy and it starts a conversation. The world should be talking about Moshiach all the time. It should be a part of the conversation. It should be in the. When you say Shabbat Shalom, moshiach Energy. When you sign on top Be'zrat Hashem, with the help of God, on top of your letter put down M-E, moshiachach energy. It all begins with me, mashiach energy. So the merch is on the website.
Speaker 2:You can go to modi livecom the merch is linked there or it's a separate standalone site too. It's mashiach energycom. Um, everything except the yarmulkes are print on demand, right. So we don't hold any of that inventory. But if you want a mashiach energy yarmulke, they're being stored in a warehouse in Dallas, right?
Speaker 1:now? No, don't bother them. And you?
Speaker 2:need to order them now, because the warehouse is closing at the beginning of September or end of August and they're being returned to me and then I have to figure out how to resend those, because that's a custom product. So if you want a Moshiach Energy yarmulke and you haven't ordered one, go to MoshiachEnergycom and get one now, because they're about to all be shipped back to our apartment. But just again. But get a hat.
Speaker 1:People ordered the notebooks, Notebooks, hats anything, it's just give it as gifts or a lip. Yeah, and that's it. And just get the conversation about Moshiach Energy going and whatever it means to you, you just love seeing where the orders are going.
Speaker 2:It's so much fun you like looking at like.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's being sent to… Sweden, yeah, Stockholm and all these crazy places the yarmulkes and hats and notebooks and T-shirts and sweatshirts are going to and send pictures of it. We love it. Also, send whatever you want me to bring to the O'Hell, to the grave of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
Speaker 2:Our PO box is in the description of the episodes on the podcast page.
Speaker 1:So feel free to send me whatever notes you want about that for me to bring to the Rebbe. And that's it, I think we. I think that's it, thanks. Thank you guys. It, I think we, I think that's it, thanks. Thank you guys. I thank you everybody that watched and and sent letters, what sent. Whatever this is called um messages, it's a live chat stream.
Speaker 2:It's a live chat stream.
Speaker 1:Yeah, look at that, thank you all, good shabbos, goodbye thank you again, bye.